Add me to the list of people wondering if you can say here why the Quickie is no longer being published. If Paul Shirley can criticize ESPN on his myspace, surely you can divulge some (classified?) information here. Thanks for the great work over the years.

the end of the daily quickie is indeed a sad day. it quickly (ironically enough) became my morning respite...wide brush strokes of acute observations ... one of the best recurring articles ESPN has ever had... thank you.

Dan, Removing the Quickie from my bookmarks almost made me cry. then i realized it was a piece of the orange i was peeling. "pulp can move baby!". i'll be keeping tabs here to check your opinion on things...i definitely value it. thanks.

Did ESPN give you the axe? It sucks if they did. I used to print out the quickie and a few other articles for my daily shit break. Now what am I going to wipe my ass with? Ok, just kidding; good luck your article kept my sanity here at work.

Dan - Thanks for being part of my morning routine! I really hope that we can find out why it ended! In my opinion it was the Best. Column. Ever.And honestly, the Quickie should have been the headliner of Page 2.

Thank God, now are yo still allowed to write as you did on ESPN? Or are thier contract issues? and exactly why did they discontinue the Daily Quickie, along with my cup of Joe in the Morning, The Quikie was key to get me going. Some people had thier 10:00 (EST) smoke break, I had my Quikie break....

Your Daily Quickie has been a Must-Read of mine from Day 1. While I am sad that I won't have my daily digest of sport news to get me through my day...I am thankful of being one of the thousands/millions who tuned in every day to be a part of Instant History.

So what happened? To get back Easterbrook they had to fire you??? What is going on with Page 2?!? Do they not realize that you kept everything even, every other writer had thier biases and sports love but you were like the Daily News telling you all the goings on in sports. ESPN YOU ARE FOOLS!!1

I loved reading the DQ every morning, and agreeing/disagreeing with your views. It was one of the high points of my day. So sad to see it's gone, but it does leave me with a lot of questions that the other readers have posed...

What on earth happened? Not wanting to pry, but everyone who's addicted to your column wouldn't mind some closure if possible. :)

Regardless, it'll be nice to check in and read your words here. (And avoid extra stories about T.O. at the same time... oh wait, that may not be possible anywhere on this planet... Noooooooooooooo.....)

It really is depressing to know that the Quickie is no more. Every day at work started with it and I will truly miss it. However, it is great to be here and I hope you will continue updating this blog with your great writing.

Good to have you as neighbor, you inspired me to have my own web bloghttp://sergeylosdeportes.blogspot.com/good luck to you.Still wish me luck (I sent a previous comment) Hurricane John is aiming the Baja.

Thank you for the columns. Your daily publication made the workday mornings bearable and entertaining. Now I have no reason for my daily visit to espn.com, because the 5 other things I am allowed to read on the site without my 'insider' status hold no interest to me. The broad coverage of everything sports along with your quick wit made for a great column. I look forward to reading you here.

even on hellacious days at work, DQ and Uni Watch blog are/were the two sites i got to at some point in the day, if not right around posting time (and i'm sure i'm not the only one who all too often kept on hitting "refresh" waiting for that day's quickie to be posted). dan, you will be sorely missed if somehow the quickie doesnt make a leap here to the blog.

at the time i started reading the comments here, there were 95, i can only imagine it's pushing 200 here fifteen minutes later. i echo most everyone else's thoughts, and am eagerly awaiting the answer to "why?"

the quickie started off great but tailed off as it got more popular like everything in this world. regardless, i still read it. where else can someone get all the happenings in 6 minutes? are you and greeny in cahoots? i swear i hear greeny say something then read it in your column. chicken v. egg

I hope you realize the kind of expectations that have been set for you now. With your own, independent blog, most of us still expect the same Shanoff wit to greet us in the mornings.... I hope you're up for the task.

I think you are a sham. You root for teams because your wife makes you, everything is the so-called "best _______ ever", and to boot, you frickin rooted against George Mason this past March. What the hell is wrong wit you? As a DC area guy, you make me sick. You really make me want to kick babies and fight Jesus.

I find it intersting that there's only two negative comments on here. The hyperbole gimmick got old real fast Dan, plain and simple. Eventually, you have to show some actual substance and talent don't you?

I was a junior in high school when the Quickie started; I'm now a junior in college. Almost every morning in between then and now, I've read it before I go to class for my early morning sports fix. Thanks for the years Dan, and hopefully there will be more on here.

What is wrong with you people? The best thing on ESPN?? You started your day by reading it?? We should all be rejoicing that the Worst. Column. Ever. is finally gone. Shamoff is the biggest flip flopper and self-fellating man to ever work for ESPN. He probably lost his job because he sucks so bad.

How did Larry Johnson find time to do your artwork AND rush for over 1700 yards??? I'll be taking LJ for sure in my ffl if he can now concentrate solely on football! (thanks folks, I'll be here all night!)

Such a wierd day, today marks my fathers last day after 30 years of practicing dentistry and the final MQ/DQ, I can honestly say you WERE the only writer at ESPN that thought like, that will be missed.

Seriously, I stopped reading the DQ a couple of years ago. How can there be this many people who are sports fans who actually like this guy's take on sports? It is what's wrong with ESPN, attaching instant historical significance, BEST.EVER. nonsense, why some team has ZERO CHANCE EVER and yet they win that night, forcing opinion as fact. Choosing a team because of his wife. (or maybe because they are the BEST BASKETBALL TEAM EVER (this year)) I'm so glad you are regulated to this anonymous world of blogging. Consider this my kick to the stomach after you've been pummeled to the ground Shanoff.

If it were up to me, I would fart in Dan Shanoff's dinner every night. You sheep realize that he got FIRED from ESPN, right? Why would the not bring back a writer of his "popularity"? You would think he'd at least show up in SI or CBS Sportsline...

...but no. Shamoff is representing on Blogspot. Like any other schmo with a computre. Just like the Daily Quickie.

Worst. Writer. Ever.Worst. Sports. Fan. Ever.Biggest. Fellater. Ever.

But god damn it, I respect you. Takes brass balls to put your weak material on an open forum. Good luck, Danny. We'll be in touch.

You mean he actually linked to his blog in the last quickie? What a loser. I got this link from a message board, the person who posted it was astounded that his many people actually liked Shanoff and frankly so am I. Are you all his cousins or something?

Posted on April 1, 2005Nothing says "April Fools" like the gridlock of bandwagoneers sure this is the year Roy Williams defies his history and wins that elusive title.

Now that I can't use the age-old "Red Sox win the World Series!" April Fool's joke, it falls on "Roy Williams wins a title!" to carry the load.

Don't go emailing me if UNC wins on Saturday night (see 3rd item). Your triumphalism will be answered on Monday morning, when I pick whoever wins the Illinois-Louisville game (see next item) to win the title game.

In exchange, I promise not to gloat on Monday if/when UNC loses to Michigan State.

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